How Your Project wins funding

 
During his visit to King Abdulaziz University, Prof. Dr. Mohammed Shahpour (from University of Illinois - USA) visited Jeddah Community College on Wednesday 3/12/2014 , where he gave a public lecture for the faculty at the college about the best way to evaluate research projects in order to win funding and support from officials and authorities of interest. In his lecture, he stated some essential conditions to accept a project and gain funding. Firstly, the method of writing and presenting a project is an art gained with time and practice. However, to win funding a project, it should be characterized by a number of advantages, including writing project summary should be written in an attractive way to draw the attention of the arbitrators, and must clarify the usefulness of the project and the size of its costs, and the project should come up with innovative ideas never touched before, and at the same time must clarify the research problem clearly. Also, it needs to name if it is a fundamental or an applied research. In addition to that, the project writer is advised to display the text of project to his colleagues and specialists to review and audit the text for enlightenment by their ideas.